Product Owner, BaaS Developer Experience

JR United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job description

Client:

NatWest

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

13

Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

Join us as a Product Owner, BaaS (Developer Experience)

What you'll do:

Join and lead our Developer Experience team - building, migrating to and running our new API Gateway to enable our clients to empower their propositions with simple, intuitive APIs and clear documentation.

• Work with the Product Manager for your business area to shape, own and execute a strategy and roadmap for Developer Experience within BaaS.
• Expand and mature the Developer Experience offered through user research, understanding client needs, competitors analysis, feedback loops, tooling, etc.
• Provide and maintain a view for the Technical Writers within the team of upcoming product features and initiatives that may require external facing documentation.
• Work with your team members to embed developer experience mindset across all teams at NW Boxed.
• Work with the BA in the team to promote an API & Docs first approach through the exploration and implementation of new processes.
• Prioritise the squad backlog in consultation with the cross-functional team and stakeholders as we migrate public facing APIs from our existing technology provider to our own platform.
• Break epics into detailed user stories and feature specifications in JIRA for the team to pick up and build.

The skills you'll need:

You'll need a background as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or a similar position in a BaaS or SaaS software development environment. This'll be paired with your ability to innovate, partner, and collaborate with customers or colleagues to implement the best digital experiences for our clients.

Furthermore, you’ll be expected to have:

• Experience leading successful B2B or B2B2C products in the capacity of a product ownership role in an API led technology organisation through all stages of the product life cycle.
• Strong understanding of API (and associated documentation), backend application development.
• Relevant experience in some of the following areas: SaaS, BaaS, Embedded Finance.
• High attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities whilst working in detailed and complex topics.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills working across the product and engineering organisation with a wide set of teams.
• Demonstrated ability to produce conclusive and measurable results.

Additional experience which will be advantageous to your application:

• Experience working with API Gateways.
• Experience of ‘developer experience’ as a product.
• Coaching and mentoring experience for more junior product roles e.g. BA.